The Color Purple
Synopsis
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is a story told through letters written by Celie to God and to her sister Nettie, from whom she is separated and wishes to be reunited with, who occasionally replies from her station in Africa as a missionary. Celie is a young African American woman living in the rural South of the United States. Her letters contain the details of her hard life, and the hard lives of those around her, as she struggles to prove her self worth and cope with the abuse she suffers at the hands of the men in her life. When Shug Avery, a spunky singer, enters her life, though, everything changes.
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Work Cited
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Harcourt, 1982. Print.